Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education,by Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades

Abstract

Scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades are known for their incisive analyses of trends in the knowledge economy. In this book, they study non-profit higher education as a key contributor to the knowledge economy. They substantiate a body of distinct commercializing trends in nonprofit higher education, which they describe in toto as the rise of an academic capitalism regime.